Roger Hardy is the author of <em>The Muslim Revolt: A Journey through Political Islam</em> (Hurst, 2010). A Middle East analyst for more than twenty years with the BBC World Service, he is currently a
Professors were in some respects treated as badly as the hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers comprising the majority of the small state’s population.
Whatever else they were guilty of, the two authors of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, George Bush and Tony Blair, displayed an astonishing ignorance of history.
The Chilcot report will, at long last, draw lessons from the Iraq war of 2003 – which many experts have concluded was Britain’s worst strategic blunder since the Suez débâcle of 1956.
For the media, as for the politicians, the ideal war is one that’s short and sharp, has good guys and bad guys, and has a clear outcome. Iraq in 2003 did not follow the script
In the decade since 9/11, the United States has failed to win Muslim hearts and minds. Two administrations, beginning from very different starting-points, have been unable to produce a coherent strategy for the ‘war of ideas’.
The former United States secretary of state Henry Kissinger has been turning his mind to the problem of Iran. Not surprisingly, his focus is on the nuclear issue; but that
